ZX Appeal

OCT/88

vancouver sinclair

users пыр

ZXAppeal is a monthly

newsletter put out by the

Vancouver Sinclair Users Group.

For more information on the

group and ZXAppeal see the backcover.

THIS 15650 no cs 2

` MEETING DATE........... 2
MEETING MINUTES...... 3
PLAYING WITH........... 4.
META MEDIA............... 4
PRIZ SEZ seo cet Sen 5
ODDS & ENDS.............. 5
MARCIO 5Е?7.................... 6
WET WEAR?.......... ait
2068 РК6М.................... ya:
STEALING OK... 10
2068 PRGM................ 10
TIMACHINE PATCH... 11
2068 РЕ6М................... 1

THIS ISSUE... b ona NERO

Not much in the way of submissions this
month so we'll just have a "skinny" issue.
We do have a few things for you: ever
reliable, for the moment, Harvey is back
with thoughts on some of his recent
readings as well as a note to all

concerning Meta Media QL wares; Gerd

dropped off a couple of things for this
issue, and Marcio handed in a little item
of interest. I also have a couple of other
ilems you might find interesting as well
as a program listing for the 2068 that
will be of great help if you're not sure
weather to take your umbrella with you.

If you guys want and expect to receive
an interesting and enjoyable newsletter
then you'll just have to start doing a little
more to support it. Quite a few members
have contributed items but many of you
have done nothing to support the N/L nor
the group other than pay your dues.
Sorry chaps, a little more is expected if
the group is to keep on keeping on. You
out-of- -lowners can certainly contribute
as well.

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SEPTEHBER HINUTES

-Sept 9/88
-by your HUMBLE scribe

Hith prompting Gerd asked for order
at 19:25. There were 17 intrepid souls
present; a couple more straggled in
later.

Gerd started off by talking about
the considerable amount of work which
goes into producing a newsletter. Kudos
mere handed out to Rod with general
applause.

Glenn Read was not aound to do a VP
report, so Rod jumped in mith his
treasurer's report. He nom have
CAN$ 942.93 in ye olde credit union
with credits during the meeting of
approx. $75.00 bringing the total over
1K. Rod also mentioned he is going
‘domn under’ next month & it mill be up
to somebody else to do the newsletter
that month. Volunteers?

Rod mentioned modestly that ZXAPPEAL
had tied for second in the TDM contest.
Hore kudos/

There was a question from the floor
about whether or not we are exchanging
newsletters with any Mexican user
groups? It seems we did in the past,
but a chnage of address card seems to
have gone astray. By the may, Rod will
now be sending a copy of ZXAPPEAL to
Nigel Searle every month. [Perhaps me
should send a formal open invitation to
Sinclair/Searle & co., if they happen
to be in Vancouver the second friday of
the month?J

Rod then mentioned that a company in
Texas is advertising a Sinclair MSDOS
machine. He was so intrigued, he phoned
them. It turns out this is an AHSTRAD
512 mith classical Sinclair brand logo.
Aaarghh/ A pox on Alan Sugar & his
marketing minions/

Rod then passed the SNUG – SINCLAIR
NORTHAMERICAN USER'S GROUP propaganda
sheet around. There was some talk of
the proposed SHUG-BBS newsletter idea.

Fred Nachbaur has given Jim Horne
all of his software library & there is
a catalog disk. [The golden goose is
gone honever/]

Rod then piped up to say that he had
received a letter from Walter Komlosy
who has offered to collaborate with the
hardware group. He has already designed
a 366K НУМ board. Takers?

Harry Slot stood to say that the
hardware group had not been doing much

over the summer & would not be active
for another month or so because he was
ripping his house apart. There were
Jokes about whether another pipe organ
mas entering the Slot household.
HilfRigter mentioned that he sam Sea
43X8 LCD's at RPE.

Harvey mentioned that he had
HD—-48'ed his old printer ribbon
collection to good effect. Chung Chon
mentioned that you have to be careful
not to use the silicon based HD—49
produced by Quaker; it gums up the
print heads.

Bill Rutter mas the only librarian
present. He did not have anything to
report, but he mas worried about some
library loans which had been out for
too long. Check your goodies folks.

A protracted hardware discussion
about boosting the frequency of the
ZX81/2X80 slide into the room, in the
depths of which Rod H mas found
fantasizing about the 289 which
Sinclair ought to produce —-- with a
50 MHz 64186/

There mas a gentle request from our
valiant leader for some demos...please.

Ken Grant regaled us with the
further adventures of his 110—220 volt
power conversions. He has now got a BC
BC Rail transformer to do the trick.
Hhich is nice, except that it weighs
1/2 a ton.

Hilf Rigter mentioned that Ikea has
a type of high efficiency fluorescent
lamp now. Mario Vereiera is going to
xerox the ComputerFacts articles.
Mention was made of the upcoming PCCFA
swap meet which will be over by the
time you read this. s-)

{The Caribbean band next door got
real loud about here.J

It mas brought up that Karl Brown
Mas once again giving the Build your
Own Robot course at VVI this fall. |
There mas some discussion of various
robotics business matters which Bob did
not want to be specific about.

There mas a query on the floor about
the tpes from the Portland Sinclair
Fest. Rod H told the story of the
microphone on the video camera at the
back of the room to general sighs of
exasperation.

It seems G.Hinterburn is still
having difficulty getting the hi-res
routines to work mith his НУМ. There
was some on the spot trouble shooting
attempted.

The meeting dissolved to general” J-

cacapnhonv.

PLAYING WITH ELECTRICITY

-Sept 29/88
-Harvey Taylor

Maybe if I am quick & short about it,
I can slip another wee note past Rod this
month. He tells me he is going to print
the .asm listing from last month, but maybe
there will be room for something completely
different -- book reviews!

Ø) FROM ONE TO ZERO by Georges Ifrah
ISBN Ø 14 00.9919 0

1) THE MEDIA LAB by Stewart Brand
ISBN 9 14 00.9701 5

2) MINDTOOLS by Rudy Rucker
ISBN Ø 395 46810 8

3) WETWARE by Rudy Rucker
ISBN @ 380 79178 2

FROM ONE TO ZERO by Georges Ifrah

I was in the middle of a protracted
discussion about numbers, having started
with the Mandelbrot Set and drifted into
the history of mathematics - specifically
just when and where the concept of ZERO was
discovered/invented, when I remembered having
noticed this book in the bookstore. A happy
chain of coincidence! This book is great.

The subtitle of the book is A UNIVERSAL
HISTORY OF NUMBERS and that is accurate.
Starting from the earliest methods, finger
counting, cuneiform, hieroglyphics this
fascinating text leads you through various
cultures unravelling the development of

"mathematical thought & notation around the

world. Recommended.

THE MEDIA LAB by Stewart Brand

Imagine Marshall McLuhan for engineers,
living under a regime of “demo or die", trying
to invent the future media of the world in
“the rag and boneshop of the heart" where
new technologies overlap.

A Quote: "All communication technologies
are suffering a joint metamorphosis, which
can only be understood if treated as a single
subject, and only advanced properly if treated
as a single craft. The way to figure out what
needs to be done is through exploring the human
sensory and cognitive system and the ways
humans most naturally interact."

MINDTOOLS by Rudy Rucker

Rucker makes mathematics fun! This book is
a spirited romp through number, space, logic,
infinity and information as applied to almost
everything. On one level the book is Rucker's
attempt to make the reader comfortable with the
computer generated paradigm that "everything
is information", while on another it is a
vehicle to explain oneself as a multi-dimensional
fractal.

WETWARE by Rudy Rucker

This is a science fiction book which deserves
а special place of honour in the CyberPunk
section of your library. It is the near future.
On the moon the robots have rebelled. There is
an uneasy peace. Now the bops are going to try
running human software [WETWARE] on a petaflop -
a meatbop. [1 petaflop = 10^15.] To do this they
need to use the illegal drug merge. It turns you
into a puddle of protoplasm for a spell.

The neatest bops look like iridescent capes.
Put one on & it taps into your CNS. So does the
book.

Aotolcieleteiciereleieioreletoloiererororererereterererotooreretotoloreororererotototetetotototerotooletetotek

META MEDIA GOKS SHAREWARE

-Sept 7/88

Recently a couple of things have happened which have made me
reconsider how I wish to conduct my business in the Sinclair community.
The first of these is learnind that my software is being pirated around
the United States. Even though it ought not to have been, because I
pointedly eschewed the use of any sort of copy protection, this was a
bit of a shock to me. It would seem that the only sensible stratedy is
to use the pirating energy by going shareware.

The second consideration is the fact that I have bought an Amiga 2000.
I now have divided loyalties. Those of you who know me are aware that
I have always been interested in the wide spectrum of computing —- I have
been a member of three different computer clubs for some time now; So
this is not that surprising. However it will mean that my time will be further
subdivided. Going shareware is one way to reduce the demands on my time.

Consequently, Meta Media Productions is releasing Q LINK 1.556
as shareware. If you find this software of value, you may redister with
Meta Media for 1)a copy of the manual, 2)telephone support, 3) news about
updates, 4)further support wares, such as Unarc, Uncrunch, Filters etc. as

they become available.

` What this means is copy to your hearts delight, give a copy to all
your friends, spread the wares. If you wish to redister, you may send

05$15.00 to:

META MEDIA PRODUCTIONS

726 West 17th
Vancouver, BC.
Canada V5Z 1T9

of funds due.

For the interim period, while orders still come in from people expecting
to buy Q LINK, I will treat these as requests to register k return the balance

cordially, Harvey Taylor

MESSAGE FROM YOUR PRESIDENT

Your V.S.Uu.G.
Pacific Coast Computer Fair
Meet held on October 1;.1988 at the
McPherson Cenntre in Burnaby. We had a
table adjacent to that of the Vancouver
Robot Club (started and run By former
and present members of V.S.U.G. Karl
Broun is still giving courses on
Building Your Oun Robot. Harry Slot put
up an impressive display of customized
TS 1000 hardware: & dedicated word
Processor complete with full size
Keyboard: printer and monitor (static)
well as а unitized system with
integral S" monitor írunnina a 555 timer
design). We had several enquiries about
our club. Опе person has a TS 1000 and a
2959 and he is looking forward - to
attending our next club meeting. Gur
stack of literature ¿brought back from
the Portland: Oregon Fair by Rod
Humphreys? Was | gone before the show
ended. Karl Brown: Ken Abramson; Bob
Denison and myself: all V.S.U.G.

the
Suap

in
and

Participated

а=

members: brought a robot each. Bob
Patiently tought interested visitors hou
to -program a robot using his full size
terminal. Karl programmed his using a
Radio Shack lap top and I programmed
mine using a ZX 81 with the robot loader
program residing in an ӨК built-in non-
volatile memory and running from а 16K
rampack: RS232 board and 5" monitor. Ше
also had quite a feu club members drop
in helping attend the table and
visiting.

Save Our Heusletter-YOU CAN DO IT! We
haven't had a Membership Profile for
ages and could really do with articles
contributed by YOU. Again: this is an
excellent Platform for all members
€including vou folks out-of-town? to
make YOUR VIEWS Known and contribute te.
YOUR club. Looking very much forward to
seeing and/or hearing from you soon.

Gerd Breunung

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ODDS AND ENDS ON TS 18880 ADD-ONS
By Gerd Breununa

*RANDOS DIRECTORY HARD COPY

Do vou wish to make а print of your
RANDOS directory? -Here is how vou can
do it: (presuming vou have RAMDOS in a
RUN location of 7684: i.e. Hot Key
installed? instead of "E" center> press
“RAND USR 786@"<enter>. Your directory
will appear with error code 5/0. Switch
back to the Sinclair rom and
"“COPY"Center> the listing on your 2040
Printer. Then press the HOTKEY "E" to
use the directory.

MY RAMNDOS DIRECTORY

CLRDISK;B ЗБ REHLIMBR;E т
UNMERGE; 6 42 RTPLORD;E jm
REMSRUE;B 64 16KTEST; Е i
SK TEST;B 165 STOFPER;EBE =
CHEKSUM;EB 65 FSTLORD;E 3
FSTSRUE;B 177 HTERM/T;B 3756
Z SPEAK;B 58021 Е SPEAK; 2552
MAZOGS ;BllSs2i HMHZOGS ;U 174
B.ARRGU;Y 351 B.FROGG;U 351
B.HRZüG;U 35i 5 BOOT;B 264
B.ZORLR;U 381 ; e

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*POWER CONSUMPTION
I am presently running the following set
up:

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НЕ ‚КЄЧ BOARD _

For the illustrated set up the current -
draw with program in RAM is 580 mA and
with modem running as vell is 600 mA.
"For а TS 18000 with 16k TS 1016 Rampack
the current draw is 600 mA and the power

is 6 watts.
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LA D L

After loading a program, we that
still labor with ZX-21 machines and
not so reliable tapes always
wonder if it loaded GK. You and I
know that a program may still run
and not have loaded perfectly.
Hell, mu solution is in fact very
simple. Just replace the save lines
with the following:

xxx@ CLS

07 Ad
Мы Г

= een

How replace lines xxxi to xxx9-

xxxi POKE 16417, USR Z

xxx4 SAVE "program name"

xxxS IF USR Z=PEEK 16417 THEN
GOTO 1

xxxG PRINT "SORRY, EAD LORE.
MARCIO SAYS 50 =

xxx9 STOP

How save the program. Bo not
modify lines xxx@ to xxx3. Line
xxx4 may be changed to agree with
your fast loading program. CXXX4
RANE USR zz£zz) Line xxx5 may be
changed to read ххх5 IF USR

xxxi LET Z=PEEK 16425 + 256
` ¥ PEEK 16426 + 5

xxxe REM 1262455789818 24567

xxxi FOR 1—1 TG 17

xxx4 INPUT Н

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xxx НЕХТ I

xxx? STOP

Run this program and enter
followings data, one by one:
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79 237 S2 288 25 24 247

Z=PEEK 16417 THEN RUH, Сог БОТО
X£Xxrx J). Line xxx6, MUST НОТ, I do
repeat, MUST HOT be changed or
the worst things will happen to
your beloved machine, the least
being that your ULA will start
smoking and be useless forever...
the aad you cannot get those

anymore... HHY ?

Alarcio Честа says ^o

SK sk sede ee E E E E E pe КЕ

Computing Canada January 21, 1988

` Rise of neurocomputers predicted

Neurocomputers are a new
breed of computers that emulate
the human brain, and a New Jer-
sey firm, in a comprehensive re-

port, projects that the neurocom- `

puter market will grow from last
year's $7 million (U.S.) to $570
million by the end ofthe century.

According to the report,
Neurocomputing: The Technol-
ogy, The Players, The Potential,
from Technical Insights Inc. of
Englewood, early markets will
be in defence and aerospace, pat-
tern recognition and expert sys-
tems.

-6-

Later markets will develop in
speech recognition, surveillance
and machine vision.

Neurocomputing, in its analy-

sis of the machine vision market, ·

says, in part, that General Motors
has indicated that the company
could use 44,000 robots with vi-
sion.

Because machine vision based
on conventional, serial com-
puters is expensive and unreli-

able, few such systems аге in изе _

(probably less than 1/10th of one
per cent).
The development of the neural

machine is still in its early stages,

so production units won't be
available in the U.S. until the
1990s. The estimated production.
price is $30,000, which is ex-
pected to drop to half that by
1999. a T

More than 175 research groups
involved with neurocomputers
are detailed in the 240-page re-
port, plus profiles of eight that
are actively selling hardware or
software.

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SUPREME COURT RULES
STEALING DATA
ISNOT THEFT

JTTAWA — After a recent Supreme Court of
Canada ruling which decided that taking
confidential information is not theft, many
companies with computers are worrying
aboutthe safety of electronically stored data.

The ruling was handed down in a case in
which a Toronto consultant, Vayne John

Stewart, offered Jan William Hart, a security
guard at the Constellation Hotel in Toronto,

money to obtain the names, addresses and
shone numbers of its 600 employees in an

-fort to unionize them.

Hart informed his employer and the
police of the bribe and Stewart was charged
with counselling to commit theft and fraud.
Although first acquitted, Stewart was later
convicted by the Ontario Court of Appeal.
Supreme Court Justice Antonio Lamer re-
stored the acquittal late last month.

The court ruled that confidential informa-
tion is not property, and so its unauthorized
taking cannot be theft. He explained that
property must be capable of being taken or
“converted” in a manner that results in the
deprivation of the alleged owner of the use
or possession of that property.

Furthermore, since confidential informa-
tion is a “pure intangible" and has no phys-
ical existence, said Justice Lamer, it cannot
be the subject of a taking. He added that if
protection is warranted for such informa-

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enactment.

On the charge of fraud, Justice Lamer de-
cided the taking of the information would
not have resulted in a risk of economic loss.
Since the hotel had no intention of dealing

іп a commercial way with the confidential’.

information, it would not have been de-
frauded of money or of any economic advan-
tage.

So if someone were to obtain access to in-
formation such as a mailing list, whether

electronic or hardcopy, to use it in a way that

would not deprive the owner of access or
subsequent revenues he cannot be charged
with either theft or fraud.

However, under the Copyright Act, com-
piled information such as a mailing list qual-
ifies as a “literary work” and may therefore
be protected. Computer programs, both
source and object code, are similarly pro-

tected under the act. Any unauthorized re-

production, while not theft or fraud, is re-

garded as a copyright infringement.

Any unauthorized copy made onto a mag-
netic storage medium such as a disk or tape,
or a duplicate made into computer memory

. would be regarded as illegal.
If access to a computer were gained by a «i
non-employee using a dumb terminal and :

modem, where the information was merely
displayed and no tangible or fixed medium
copy were made, the Copyright Act might

not apply. The person might be charged `

with theft of telecommunications service

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under the Criminal code, although a deci-
sion of the Supreme Court of Canada has
made it unlikely a conviction could be ob-
tained in that situation, says Barry Sookman,
a lawyer specializing in computer law with

‚ Rosenberg Smith Paton Hyman in Toronto.

In the Stewart case, Justice Lamer ad-
dressed the concern many companies have
regarding the release of corporate secrets by
former employees. He explained the possi-
ble consequences if the courts were to re-
gard confidential information as property
and the mere unauthorized possession of it
as theft. Any ex-employee unable to erase
corporate information from his memory
(brain) could then theoretically be charged

` under the Criminal Code for each day that

he is unable to forget it, said Justice Lamer.

However, a company is protected even
without implementing a non-disclosure
agreement which would prevent any em-
ployee from revealing corporate secrets.
Sookman points out employees and com- ;
pany officers are obligated to operate in
trust and confidence. Any breach of this is a
civil offence.

According to Sookman, while confidential
information isn’t any less secure under the
civil law following the decision in the
Stewart case, the precedent set may well
weaken the power of the courts to prosecute `
clear infringers in criminal cases.

; by Anita Castaldi :
OFFICE MANAGEMENT & AUTOMATION/JULY 1988

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